Bates Area Civic Association

And before the Common Good picnic:

Hello all—Please come out Friday evening to support the efforts of Howard University students’ Do You Care? Campaign. Mr. Howard University, Melech Thomas, is organizing this march to declare Howard University and its surrounding community free from violence and gang activity. The March details and the Campaign information is below.

Date: Friday, September 18, 2009

Time: 6:30pm – 9pm

Start Location: Howard University Main Quadrangle Flag Pole

Route: The starting point of the March will be the Flagpole on the Yard of Howard University. The line will form between the Fine Arts building and Douglass Hall.

March southbound on Sixth Street, stopping at the Administration Building to put the White House letters in the USPS mailbox.

Southbound on Sixth Street, making a right turn down Howard Place and turning SB onto Georgia Avenue. Continuing down Georgia Avenue, we will make a left turn down Bryant Street.

From there, we will cross diagonally across the Health Science Library Quadrangle and SB onto Fifth Street. We will take Fifth Street SB until making a left on U Street, then making a left onto Third Street. At the intersection of Third Street and Elm Street, we will stop and have a moment of silence in front of the former Gage Eckington school.

From there, we will continue West on Elm Street, making a right onto Fourth Street. We will march up Fourth Street and end the March back at the Flagpole on the Yard where it started.

End Location: Howard University Main Quadrangle Flag Pole

Anticipated Participants: HU Students, faculty, staff and local community

What is the Do You Care? Campaign

The Purpose of the Do You Care Campaign is to channel the moral conscience of a country that has desensitized itself to gun violence. It shall promote safe neighborhoods as well as local, state, and federal legislation that push for a common-sense application of the Second Amendment rights. The DYC Campaign shall advocate for a permanent reinstatement of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, for a White House National Summit on Gun Violence, and for a National Agency to collect, track, and disseminate youth gun deaths data. The programs, initiatives, and campaigns done by the Do You Care Campaign shall ardently use positive means to reach positive ends.

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